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£20bn promised to NHS but questions over where money will come from
June 18, 2018Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, UK government, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
Theresa May finally attempted to tackle the elephant in the room for the UK government, well, the one other than …
UK immigration rules to be waived to bring in more doctors
June 14, 2018Medical Communications NHS, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
The NHS’ recruitment crisis has been on-going for a number of years, with an ageing population and a higher workload …
6.5% pay rise agreed for NHS staff
June 8, 2018Medical Communications NHS, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
After years of receiving only a 1% annual pay rise, NHS staff have voted to accept a 6.5% pay offer increase …
NICE recommends MSD’s Keytruda for advanced PD-L1-positive lung cancer
June 5, 2018Research and Development MSD, Merck, NHS, NICE, keytruda, pharma
UK drug watchdog NICE has chosen to issue final guidance recommending the use of MSD’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) on the NHS …
Staff shortfall leads to massive deficit for NHS
May 31, 2018Medical Communications NHS, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
The headline figure is that the NHS budget deficit for the year 2017/2018 came in at £960 million, close to …
NHS England uses £10m fund to retain GPs
May 30, 2018Medical Communications, Research and Development GP, NHS, UK government, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
On the day that news broke, through Pulse, that over a million patients have had to move GP surgery in …
Breast cancer screening scandal potentially involves even more women
May 25, 2018Medical Communications Jeremy Hunt, NHS, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
The news broke at the start of the month that a number of women who should have been invited to …
Report calls for tax rises to fund ailing NHS
May 24, 2018Medical Communications IFS, NHS, UK government, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
A report published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has stressed that UK funding into the NHS needs to …
NHS Trust harnesses AI to speed up treatment
May 22, 2018Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications AI, NHS, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has teamed up with a provider of AI systems to introduce …
450,000 missed breast cancer screenings, 270 lives potentially shortened
May 2, 2018Medical Communications Jeremy Hunt, NHS, UK, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
An error in the automated system left 450,000 women without an invite for breast screening and Jeremy Hunt, the UK’s …
UK Ministers call on Vertex to speed up price negotiations
April 23, 2018Sales and Marketing NHS, NICE, Orkambi, UK government, Vertex, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
After a parliamentary debate in the House of Commons regarding making Orkambi available to patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), MPs …
Obesity admissions double in four years
April 5, 2018Medical Communications NHS, UK, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
New figures show that hospital admissions related to obesity have doubled over the last four years in the UK, placing …
Proton beam therapy finally arrives in UK
April 4, 2018Medical Communications, Research and Development NHS, Proton beam therapy, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
28 years after the US first pioneered proton beam therapy at Loma Linda University Medical Center, the UK now has …
One centre for cancer diagnoses trialled
April 3, 2018Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
NHS England is trialling centres that should be able to provide rapid answers as to whether a patient has cancer …
May hints at providing long-term funding plan for NHS
March 28, 2018Medical Communications, Research and Development Conservatives, NHS, Theresa May, UK government, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical
After the news broke earlier in the week of a group of nearly 100 MPs calling for a parliamentary commission …
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